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Cehil sutun, seu, Explicatio utriusque celeberrimi, ac pretiosissimi theatri quadraginta columnarum in Perside Orientis : cum adjecta fusiori narratione de religione, moribusq[ue] Persarum, & eorundem vivendi modo, populis vicinis, alijsq[ue] de hac Orientali Natione famosissima scitû dignis ...

by: Bedik, Petrus, author

Publication date: 1678

Topics: Chihil Sutūn (Iṣfahān, Iran), Travel, Chihil Sutūn (Iṣfahān, Iran) -- Early works to 1800, Manners and customs, Iran -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, Iran -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800, Iran -- Religious life and customs -- Early works to 1800, Iran -- History -- 16th-18th centuries, Armenia -- Early works to 1800, Middle East -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, Asia -- Armenia, Iran, Middle East, Armenia

Publisher: Viennae Austriae : Typis Leopoldi Voigt, universitatis typogr.

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Latin; Persian

Item Size: 1.0G

At head of title in Persian: Chihīl Sūtun

Imprint date from chronogram on title page: DVM feLIX aVstrIae prInCeps natVs. The prince referred in this, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, was born on July 26, 1678

Signatures: a-b⁴ A-3O⁴

Errors in paging: pages 372-373 omitted, pages 457-458 repeated in numbering, page 406 misnumbered 306

Folded engraved plate by T. Sadeler after R. Storn; frontispiece with allegorical emblem by Domenico Rossetti; portrait vignette of Leopold I surrounded by the imperial eagle on title page

Woodcut illustration on page 288

One line on page [12] (1st count) printed in red

Errata: pages [5]-[6] (3rd c ount)

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initials

Title page followed by eight page dedication to Leopold I (1640-1705), Holy Roman Emperor, a two page peroration in Persian with a translation into Latin and a one page address to the reader

Cicognara

Binding: vellum; two paper shelf labels on spine; inscribed in ink on title page and in a different hand on front pastedown

[16], 474, [6] pages, [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : 22 cm (4to)

Notes

No copyright page found.

Addeddate: 2017-07-11 17:33:21

Associated-names: Storn, Rudolf, illustrator; Sadeler, Tobias, approximately 1641-1679, engraver; Rossetti, Domenico, 1650-1736, engraver; Voigt, Leopold, 1650-1706, printer